Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matthew Wells and Dianne Penn. In today's programme:  17 mass graves are unearthed in the volatile Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We'll hear from the UN Human Rights Office; and it's time for a more responsible, humane approach to [...]

Millions pledged to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases More than US$800 million has been pledged to combat Neglected Tropical Diseases such as river blindness, sleeping sickness and elephantiasis. The announcement was made during a meeting in Geneva on Wednesday organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). The commitments include a four-year pledge totalling US$335 million made [...]

Disease, hunger and drought are forcing families in southern Somalia's Bay region to leave their homes in search of help, the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, has said. Since March 2017, more than 100,000 drought-displaced people have arrived in the region's capital, Baidoa, from neighbouring areas. Some 6.2 million people – half of the country's population [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Matthew Wells and Dianne Penn. In today’s programme: "Grotesque rape chants" occurring at political rallies in Burundi, expose a "campaign of terror" the UN human rights chief warns; and we've a special report on the thousands forced to flee drought, in the [...]

Burundi rape chants "tip of iceberg across country" Burundi youths who attend political rallies and call for the rape and killing of women could be just the "tip of the iceberg", the UN Human Rights Office, OHCHR, has warned. Speaking in Geneva on Tuesday, OHCHR spokesperson Rupert Colville expressed alarm at what he called the [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed deep alarm at a widespread pattern of rallies in Burundi where members of the ruling party's youth wing chant about impregnating and killing their opponents. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the organized nature of these marches, coupled with reports of serious human rights violations, lay bare [...]

It's time for the international community to come together to "more responsibly and humanely manage the movement of people". That's the view of the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), William Lacy Swing. The agency has documented over 65,000 deaths of refugees and migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea or the Sahara [...]

An interactive timeline chronicling the accomplishments of women over the centuries has been nominated for a Webby, the leading international award honouring excellence on the Internet. Produced by UN Women, it showcases contributions dating back hundreds of years that trailblazing women made in a wide range of fields: from art to science and literature to [...]

UN human rights office welcomes "emblematic" Nepal murder conviction The conviction of three army officers in Nepal for the murder of a teenage girl during the country's decade-long conflict has been welcomed by the UN human rights office, OHCHR. A district court on Sunday sentenced the soldiers to 20 years' imprisonment for the February 2004 [...]

Listen to a bulletin of news and features from the United Nations, with Jocelyne Sambira and Dianne Penn. In today's programme: Warring parties in South Sudan are being urged to show restraint in the face of an upsurge in violence; and a new campaign in Mexico City aims to stop sexual harassment on public transportation.